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About the Fulton School

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Dr. Maarten Pereboom is dean of the Fulton School of Liberal Arts and Professor of History at Salisbury University. He earned his Ph.D. at Yale University, where he studied the history of 20th-century international relations, focusing on the United States and Europe. His first book, Democracies at the Turning Point: Britain, France and the End of the Postwar Order, 1928 - 1933, published in 1995, won the "Outstanding Academic Book" distinction from Choice Magazine. In 1998, he won SU's distinguished faculty award. He served as assistant dean, associate dean, and interim dean of the Fulton School, then as chair of the History Department from 2002-2008. His most recent book, History and Film: Moving Pictures and the Study of the Past was published by Pearson/Prentice-Hall in January 2010.

Dr. Louise Detwiler is the associate dean of the Fulton School of Liberal Arts and a Professor of Spanish in the Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature from Indiana University Bloomington, where she specialized in Latin American Testimonio Literature and received a minor in Gender Studies. She served as Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies from 2007-2014, twice led the Málaga, Spain, short-term study abroad program for SU students, and also led many summer study abroad trips to Guadalajara, Mexico, in her previous position at Butler University. She began working for SU in 2004, where she has taught courses ranging from lower-level language classes to upper-level courses in Spanish and Latin American literature and culture. During her tenure as chair, she expanded SU’s introductory language courses to include Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, and Japanese. She also collaborated with the Center for International Education and colleagues from her department to bring SU’s first J-1 visiting scholar to campus from the University of Málaga, Spain. She was awarded the Fulton School of Liberal Arts Department Chair Award in 2010 and in 2013. Her publications include many peer-reviewed articles, scholarly translations, and a co-edited collection (with Janis Breckenridge), Pushing the Boundaries of Latin American Testimony: Meta-morphoses and Migrations, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012. She was interviewed by BBC Radio-Wiltshire's Ben Prater for her work on the Mayan calendars from this collection. Her current research interests include the ecotestimonio and ecotestimonio poetry.

Believing that the study of a foreign language and its attendant culture(s) is essential, most Fulton School majors have a foreign language requirement, where students demonstrate 102-level knowledge of a foreign language.

The Fulton School sponsors a weekly Interdisciplinary Lecture Series during the semester, featuring expert faculty from across SU who connect their disciplinary perspectives to a broader topic. Drop in for a lecture or attend them all for a one-credit course.